Economics

The law no. 11/2015 enforcing the emergency ordinance that provides the reduction of the tax on special construction by 33 percent will come into effect as from January 16, 2015 after being published in Romania’s Official Gazette three days earlier....more »

The Romanian Competition Council has sanctioned Metro, Real, Selgros, and Mega Image, as well as 21 of their suppliers with fines totaling approximately 35 million euro (154 million lei) in the investigation on the food retail market which revealed that the companies were involved in price fixing agreements between 2005 and 2009. The competition authority announces that the anticompetitive practices detected concern both agreements setting the reselling price and their actions with respect to sales promotions....more »

After 11 months in 2014, the level of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Romania is still below the volume recorded in the previous year, though the decline slowed downed following inflows of 531 million euro in November, according to a release of Romania’s Central Bank, BNR....more »

Romania’s building industry has slowed its decline in November 2014, the latest report released by the National Institute of Statistics indicating increases both compared to the previous month and to November 2013, albeit overall, construction work dropped by more than 9.5 percent year-on-year in the first eleven months of 2014....more »

The office space take-up in Romania’s major cities, including Bucharest, increased by 9.9 percent last year, reaching about 346,000 sqm, according to a report by Esop Consulting, reads Mediafax. While in Bucharest the leasing activity grew by only 5.57 percent compared to 2013, in the rest of the country the office space subject of such transactions advanced by 61 percent....more »

Polish hotel group Obris signed with Accor the agreement on the purchase of 46 hotels in Central Europe and concluded the master license agreement, the total price of the transaction amounting to 142.3 million euro....more »

Romania’s exports increased by 6.5 percent year-on-year between January and November 2014, while imports had a lower growth rate of 6 percent, leading to a trade deficit of 5.3 billion euro, higher by 97.1 million euro compared to the previous year, announces the National Institute of Statistics (INSSE)....more »

MedLife has initiated the acquisition of a majority stake of 55 percent of the shares in SAMA Health Care Center and Ultratest group, headquartered in Craiova, one of the major medical operators in the Oltenia region....more »

OTP Bank Romania has finalized the acquisition of Millennium Bank Romania, a transaction worth 39 million euro announced in June 2014. As a result of taking over of the bank, formerly part of Banco Comercial Portugues, the market share of OTP Bank Romania will expand to about 2 percent and the newly merged bank is expected to move up to the 13th position among the banks operating in Romania....more »

The retail turnover volume recorded a
growth rate above 7 percent in the first eleven months of the past year
stimulated by rising sales of non-food products, food, beverages and tobacco,
indicates a report of the National Institute of Statistic...more »
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